This Manchester City demolition of Sporting was akin to a heavyweight bullying a featherweight. A fair question was to wonder how these opponents shared the same pitch, so dominant were England’s champions.
At the break Pep Guardiola’s men were four goals up, by the final whistle it was 5-0, and at the close of the tie they may go close to Bayern Munich’s 12-1 evisceration of Sporting at the same stage in 2008-09.
